fruneral

[Jonathan Lighter]

Worst recent attempt.

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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The worst attempt at faking an accent I can think of is Robert Deniro in
the remake of "Cape Fear". Kyra Sedgewick in "The Closer" series
currently on cable bites pretty bad, too.



>
> Robert Duvall did a pretty good Glaswegian football manager
> in one film, I forget the name of it though. The locals
> HATED it, but I thought it was one of the better
> non-Glaswegian attempts at the dialect. If they hated that,
> what would they think of Mike Myers?
>
> Paul Johnston
>

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